[boost] Re: Interest in smart pointer with value semantics?

From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-04 23:48:19

"David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:ud69zhk3p.fsf_at_boost-consulting.com...
> "Thorsten Ottosen" <nesotto_at_[hidden]> writes:

> > and it should quite frankly be easy for most to see that, let alone
> > experienced programmers that have advocated const-corretness in
> > other contexts.
>
> Wow, errr...  I don't know what to say.  Whatever you think "should"
> be, it is apparently not so easy for other experienced programmers to
> see things your way.

Apparently it is for some and not for others.

> Do you think it's possible they know something
> you don't?

Of course. I'm merely trying to get them to share the secrets. There is not
much discussion about this
in the smart pointer docs and neither in the official proposal

http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2003/n1450.html

br

Thorsten